Next Tampa Bay NETMF Meeting/Rise and Fall of NiVek QC4

For all of you that experienced the violent death of NiVek QC4 at the last NetMF meeting, I’m happy to report that with a fresh set of propellers, all the systems checked out and I’m ready to tempt fate again with all fingers still attached.

Our next meeting is scheduled for Thursday March 28^th at the Microsoft Office with social/dinner starting at 6PM and formal talks starting at 6:30. Topic looks really interesting, Joseph Bisaillon, Lloyd Sparkes, Jordi Lucero, and Sean Dunford will be discussing “Zeo Mobile Sleep Manager” and the possibilities of lucid dreaming…I’m NOT going there! Randy will also being doing an intro to using a logic analyzer to build on some of the concepts that Tim started in the last meeting.

http://www.meetup.com/Tampa-Bay-NET-Microframeworks-Developer-Group/events/104804932/

I think starting in the April/May timeframe there has been a considerable amount of interest in Home Automation, we might try to start focusing our efforts on that and get back to the hands on approach we started in the first few meetings so start saving up for some hardware! Once we get a little closer, I’ll start putting together some shopping lists.

I promise no un-controlled flight of my quad…well at least I’ll do my best to get the 1’s and 0’s in the right order and test it a little more beforehand =D

-twb

Windows Phone/Windows 8 App Dev Study Group

Join us on March 7, 2013 at the Agile Thought office at 4PM for the kick off meeting for a new Study Group that is forming to build a Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 application to serve the Florida Windows App developer community.

To signup for this please visit the new Tampa Windows Developer MeetUp group.

 
http://www.meetup.com/Tampa-Windows-App-Developers/

In the past we’ve created a Windows Phone 7 application where users can upload information about their apps to help publicize their what they are working on.  As part of this study group, we are going to start from scratch and build new versions for Windows Phone, Windows 8 using Azure Mobile Services.
 
You don’t need a lot of experience building Windows 8 or Windows Phone apps, but a background in building XAML based applications would be helpful.  You will however need Visual Studio 2012 and the Windows Phone 8 tools.

We probably won’t have enough time to finish the app over the course of the initial event but as part of the discussion we’ll figure out if we will do additional in-person meetings or try to complete this offline.

 

The technologies we will be using in this study group:
- Visual Studio 2012
- Windows Phone 8
- Windows 8
- XAML
- C#
- Cloud Technology
- Azure Mobile Services
- Team Foundation Server
- Push Notifications

-twb